Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-05-28
EASTERN AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Tourists returning from Florida report the
heat there as intolerable.
1t is believed 100 tons of ssbob veal' are
delivered at Jersey City weekly.
The Illinois Senate has passed a bill to
prohibit baseball playing on Sundays.
The estate of the late Alexander Mitchell
of Milwaukee is believed to be worth from
SIS 900, 900 to $25, 100000.
The kick of horse started FIRE in New
ton Village, N. H., the other night that
burned twenty one buildings.
At New England dairy show there is
said to be on exhibition a machine which
produces butter in two minutes.
North Carolina provides her Governor with
n official residence, and new mansion is
, be erected at a cost of $50, 900.
John Wanamaker of Philadelphia is to
erect an immense structure in which unmar-
ried men of his employ can find homes.
Marion Brooks, the United States District
Attorney, has gone to San Diego TO investi-
gate the cases of fraudulent land entries.
Mrs. Patrick O'Brien at New Haven,
Conn.,, celebrated Queen Victoria's birthday
by draping the entire front of the house in
black.
Blocks of marble weighing fourteen tons
are being raised $40 feet to their positions
the tower of the new City Hall building in
Philadelphia.
A freight car which recently arrived at
Chippewa Falls, Wis, was marked "Perish-
able Goods" On opening the door four
tramps walked out.
1t is estimated that between $500, 200, 900
and 5000, 600, 900 will be expended in rail
road construction in the United States dur
ing the current year.
Charles Winslow, Vice Consul at Guerre-
70, Mexico, reports falling off in the i'm
portaton into that country of articles of
American production.
The Commissioners of the Canadian Res
ervation at Niagra Falls are taking measures
to reduce the number Of places at which Wis
itors are feeced by means of tolls.
While blowing on Smithland Island, in
the Ohio, sixty miles above Cairo, ILL.,, John
Pcachell was struck by lightning from a
small feecy cloud in clear sky and killed.
A number of striking miners at the Halle
caid haa1
evicted. The other tenants are forbidden to
give them shelter and much suffering exists.
1t is stated on the authority of the Super.
intendent of the City Fire Alarm Telegraph
in Chicago that there are now 3,o23 miles of
underground wire in successful operation in
that city.
At Greenwood, Ark, colored preacher,
who short time ago celebrated his one hun
bred and second birthday, has taken out
license to marry Mrs. Edie Smith, aged sixty
two years.
An Anarchist ranter who declared in
public meeting at Allegheny City, Penn,
that the American flag was only rag on
stick, was fined $25 by the Mayor as dis
turber of the peace.
Nine. Anna Loheyde, prominent society
lady of Pittsburg, Penn, and ten years ago
one of the leading sopranos Of America com
mitted suicide last week by hanging herself
She had become demented on the subject of
spiritualism.
At the funeral Of John Dude Holmes, for
many years Surveyor of New York city, sew
en- women, each protesting to be Holmes
legitimate wife, put in an appearance and
made claim on his properly. They have all
engaged counsel.
The Attorney General OF Iowa has ofhci-
ally advised Sheriffs and other State officers
that "when engaged in enforcing the Prohib
itory law they have the right-of-way, and
are to pay no attention to the interference of
Federal authorities"